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Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A biography of Virginia Apgar in the She Persisted series. There weren't many women who tried to become doctors when Virginia Apgar went to medical school--but she didn't let that stop her. After a professor discouraged from becoming a surgeon, she became an anesthesiologist instead and created the famous Apgar test to check the health of newborn babies. It's a test that's still used in hospitals across the world today! "--
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Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mary Edwards Walker was one of the first women to receive a medical degree in the United States and went on to serve as a doctor to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. Her unconventional and determined life paved the way for generations of women in medicine and beyond.
6) The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
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English
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"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"In 1937 senior medical students from New Orleans, Louisiana, and Omaha, Nebraska, met at the Mayo Clinic and began a two-year correspondence. Their courtship letters shed light on early 20th century society, hospitals, and health care"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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The true story of how Deepak Chopra and his brother, Sanjiv, came to America penniless in the 1970s to be interns at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, New Jersey, and became two of the most celebrated and well-respected physicians, teachers, and philosophers in the world.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The author pieces together the story of her absent father's life, beginning with his advancements in isolating the biochemical root of manic depression, which he then began to suffer from himself, leading to years of institutionalization and confinement.
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